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THOS, R. PENN, : : Publisher.
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SARD LUCK .->.
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“Now, that’s svhat I call a down
Tfartley, right sliamd," exclaimed Milton
to his fellow clerk, Ned
Steele.: “Old Iiowes has
To cheek think than of his I, gjive asking--) ||iii credit to teaCh dor. !
on
that young nppiiew of his tb« bvsi-^i
ness, which means your walking!
ticket sure, as soon as be learns'f I
wouldn't do it!’’ .<,•
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“It is. rath or liard luck,” replied
Ned, liis voice Irenihling a little,
“He knows just how much 1 ne, d
tho money; and even if he were
going to discharge me, he needn’t
have asked me to-spend a fortnight
or knowahout move teaching the Chanie Rage ’' all I
work.”
“It’s taking the bread right out
oi your mouth.” said tiro
clerk indignantly. “Young Rage
don’t need it, cither.- If I were yim,
Ned, 1 d s-iip, , let , , , .
and toe old man
teach his nephew himself. No one
can do your work as you do it, any
way,” „
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“1 shall be- on the lookout for
another “h<« job. Work’a pretty scaree,
EJ k <}’•
ing on &ik do ha i s awoek now.
•‘You’re right, Nydv L don’t see
how you do it. YY by,. ^n’t live
iiaif :
dec. oao*'K&IRiffcr^jfiWnys^W” nt on hf.y a n^mh,
I’ve no
“Yet mother and Nan I havc^ol
j'lot.g very.well'so far,
there’ll be a way opened,” said Ned
cheerfully, as he turned io his de^k.
“YV’tslI, y-Hu’ro a wonder to me,”
muttered Hilton.’- ■ t •
Young -Hartley could hot,-and
probably never would, understand
lhuoueaning of economy. Ilo
all he had and fonhd that fiU from
enough, although his income was
twice that of Ned Steele. .
Hartley was liqud, c^js k vwuen
Ned entered the efnjjfoy-ra Routes
& Co., neatly a year before, and
Ned had taken What the .boys offll
'*a shine” to thedlashily-ares’sed and
careless young man of'''the world.
tainly Not that quosiioi Ned was vole led rutoftiie c^r-J i
- coinpany m
which Milton Is Si nley ah one; but
he admired from a distance.
Their lives w|rventirely different
and always would be, Ned told him
self. He had a mother and little
sister to help support, and such
pleasures as his fellow c’eik in
dulged in wore not for him.
“Hard luck! that’s what it is,” lie
thought, as he loaued over bis
books.
Only that noon Mr. Bowes had
called his youngest clerk into the
private office, and shooting a
piercing glance over his-gold-bowed
spectacles at Ned, as was lbs habit
when said, sternly:
“Mr. Steele, mv young nephew,
Charles Page, will be ; here ryx!
Monday morning, and 1. wish you
to teach him your work thorough
ly., 1 in land to make some changes
here shortly. That is all.”
That was all; but it meant every
thing to Ned—more than he had
ever lot Milton know ; and now, as
ne bent low over .the page ef hi
ledger, two gr'eat tears splashed
down on the neat rows of figures,
and he dashed his hands across bi«
eyes, aud bit his lip in vexation at
this little weakness.
“Hard Iuckl” he muttered, as he
wc-nt to eupper, and it was a very
grave Ned Steele that entered the
little house ibat evening.
YVifen little Nan had been put to
bed, Ned told his mother the bad
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‘OUR AMBITION IS TO MAKE A VERACIOUS WORK, RELIABLE IN ITS STATE RETS, CANDID IN ITS CONCLUSIONS, AND JUST IN ITS VIEWS.”
| new?, ami lect-ivt-d tS.ei-oiuioJ l i lm
a—hind, Christian mother lias for
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“.Keapnip yr.nr courage, my son,”
she said as Ned kigsed her good
night,; “Maybe good will come out
of your ‘hard luck.’ ”
“t wish 1 Could think so,” replied
Nods* .
Trite to promise, Air. Bowes in
Charlie Page into the office
the followitrg;Monday morning, and
wa%w$l he did, for Milton did
not niake his appearance all day,
and even a “green hand” was some
help,
-3 a face
like tS thunder cloud, and it was
none the less dark when Mihon
camp ln th.o uoxt day, as cool and
placjd as ever. Air. Row os’ sharp
reprimand never ruffled the
serenity of his head (*l<.rk.
Charlie Page and Ned had been
school friends before Ned’s father
died, but Charlie’s warmth of t n’end
ship wasconsiderably chilled by his
schoolmate’s very apparent
coldness,
% wonder what it <ym be that’s
changed Ned so,” ‘mused Charlie,
entirely innocent of any such
thonglit us displacing his former
schpv l elium.’
Rut as Ned’s stiffness rather in
ereased UTS*
hirf
fhut * uo ^(.vuld -6 how
that his' iriehdsfiip couldn’t be re
fused twice.” • .
fcjo, upvle.r the existing circutn
fetari.A-s.’i nay h:->i anvtJiing but a
time of it 4a Bowes & Co.’s of
with Nc-ct "growing more
and solemn every day, Milt's abseil
cos* becoming more and moic iro
ijUeit!, *.and the proprietor’s face
like#a storm cloud from oiwi week’s
|nd to [another.! . -
Giving up Ned in disgust, Charlie
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so ’ m ’ uu P«ltt«»^n’ceship
sprang up between tliem that boded
r.a good for Mr. Bowes’ piephew.
ike Nod, he not only admired
Miltop, but ha longed to imitate
him,;at icaSt 'in some . things.’, In
CJiurhe world?’ .wanted to be a .. man _______
lne He eagerly accepted
iiivHalmii, one day given,
“Coma do 5lcs jq gbt. Page,
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V — , if you’d
like to learn,”
Ned looked up quickly from his
work, and almost spoke the warning
that was at his tongue’s end. But
x he thought, “It’s none ol my busi
ness,” kept him silent. Conscience,
however, gave him no peace; so as
they were closing up for the -night,
he said; ,
• ‘-Charlie!, don’t yon gft with Milt
to-night. Your uncle won’t like
R.”.
“Is that any of your business?”
snapped Charlie, who knew very
well that his uncle would be far
from pleased at such an escapade.
‘ Don’t give your advice, Steele, till
to. >i
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Ned turned on his heel and left,
angry with himself for speaking,
yet knowing that Charlie was just
^utering a path that would bo cer
tain ruin to such an impulsive,
headstrong fellow.
“It’s nothing to me—none of my
business,” said Ned, savagely, think
kscc mg^fthjfchanllucji Ht tho office would Charlie’s bring r>tes- him.
“Are you too tired to take the
work I’ve finished over to Mrs. Coles
tor me after tea, Ned?” was Mrs.
Steele’s gentle inquiry, during the
meal,
‘‘Not at all, mother,” was Ned’s
cheerful reply: and so he set out,
immediately after his appetite was
satisfied, for the long tramp across
tho city.
GRAY, GEORGIA, SATURDAY'. JANARY 12, 1SS9.
Though oiieerfui before his
er, Ned s thoughts were far
pleasant as he walked on through
the almost deserted streets.
and then fine carnages dashed 1
’
and ,, he , long, d , to , be tike ., the occu
pants—wealthy.
If he only had money [enough to
live in a hig house as Mr. Bowes did,
or lik.' Charlie’s folks he’d ride to
a carriage, too, and—but this un*
profitable reverie was cut short by
his arrival at Mrs. Coles’. He de
livered the work ami turned again
toward home.
Two figures pastel before him out
a brilliantly lighted,;,billiard
and separated on the cor-
“G-ood-night, Charlie. Guess you
can get home all right.” Ned heard
Mfiton ; Hartley r r , i , a voice - say. H.e
air will do your head pood, it was
confounded liot in there, that’s
fact.”
on =„ r a liUlo«,««.
u >n<-v. w.aid tl)e otiier, leaning
unsteadily against, the lamp-post,
“Thatstuffl had made me terribly
dizzy.”
“Oh, that’ll he all right in a few
U1 -ff- lt 1 — G»d
bcouanrcl; ,MI,. oxcLiimed I. lvl ^NeJ, as
Hartley turued (he corner. Then
Stepped forvar-l and grasped
arm. “Come on Lome,
r=gc. WlWpjo,,.^
’ s tDutyou, ihcCcj saiu Charlie
thickly, “Let go of my arm. lean
get a’ong without your help,
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ha>;
t, i.ivcd ..nay* f’.-.-ws ?T.ai mifi
pt «Pgere.l half across the street, but
a - ul !lil m ’ a ,iei) P> to °
con ^ iSe( ^ for ii moment to move. A
carriage turned the corner and came
rapidly toward the prostrate boy,
and had’Ned not pulled him hack
in the nick ol time, in all probability
the foolish fellow would have been
killed.
it was all done in a flash*-the
fall, the hish of hoofs, Ned’s plucky
action—then Ned Steele found him
self lying on the edge of the sidewalk
feeling a little faint and with a bad
ly-wrenched ankle. Mr. Bowes was
bending over him, and Charlie
Page sat on the curbstone leside
bun, now thoroughly sobered.
“He'p me into the carriage with
him, Charlie,” said Mr. Bowes, hus
kily. “Had it not been for him I. i
probably should have ran over and |
killed my own nephew.”
In his mice’s library, with N el ]
s-r^ched on toe sola beside him,
Charlie made a clean breast of the
affair, and was freely forgiven. And
after some urging explained
his own conduct toward his former
schoolfellow.
did you think that I had
intention of discharging you,
said Mr. Bowes. “My
was to discharge Milton
Hartley, and give you his position
soon as Charlie was capable of
your work. You are fully
competent, my boy, so Hartley goes
morrow, and Edward Steele will
head clerk for Bowes & Co.”
This was good news indeed, and
when Ned kissed his mother, before
he left home to take his sent for the
time at Milt’s old desk, ho said,
. “It was all a mistake ubout my
hard luck, mother. I’ll never cry
out before I arn hit,”
And he never did.'
M.V.I1AI1IHAS
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CLINTON, GEORGIA
dRACTICES IN OCMULGEE CIRCUIT
Office in Coutr House.
j oaes Conty Sheriffs Sab.
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G K0|1G Y|||| 1A- Jones Connty.
bo so Id befoie the Court.
Unusc duo in Gin ton timing the
ifga hoursOf sale on the first I nes
,iny in bVy next at public outcry engine
one §'>} h<uo power steam
manyfactied by A. B I'arquhar &
1 o, yin* rLboi twit and online fix
SiJptr.or’ouct 'JSSSSJ^lSkl' in favor of John S.
Stew» ft .'Son for use Ac vs R. E
iiuihtng: ’iiuhuU. Phillip Ilntehiugs and
it. J Said property found
rn po^eston of and pointed out by
said ill.,I Marshall. Jan. 2nd 1889.
I YV. W. BARRON,
Sheriff Jones Co.
G MO R (J A—J on eh -Go u N T v.
WILL he sold before fheCourt
? legal )0U ?J sale at..In.ton tours, Ga., the dining first lues- the
on
(1 ;y nfaetjjtive in IL-Vnury fSSUal public .ml
aer sof land, more or
less in Hatimouds Dint, said State
and ewn y, hounded by lands of li.
TSt levied
now iu hii possesion, on u« \ lie
proper'} d suid W 1’ Childs by vir
tueofjOnvfi Courwih fa from Jones Superior
Ivor of W I>. & O. G
s P ar $ V -|W. T Childs and W. A
Jan3|iV|889, ftj.T W. SheviH' W. BARRON, Jones Oo.
^ ^ . JuNKS
^11 If be s Id before the Court
,
FcV'ruErjvli^xt at, public outcry four
i}iut,'S_to~wit; 1 lackfliorse one mule, bh-yk man* sorrel mule,
one
^fhe tpify prO^-t'/of tit in lh'j mare T urner mule
g a one Jones
Court ii far. *r of A. H Ste]»hcns
s ,J °s- J Principal an.l S. l
ligand L. J turner hmet.ee.
biud undes found in the possision of
R, J Turner. This the 3rd day of
JaniSHJ. vv. vv. BARRON,
Sheriff Jones County.
EXECUTOR'S SALIfi.
Gr E Q11G1 A —J ones Count}’,
ll' Wiil| bo wold inIthe before of the Clinton
Usefloor, town
in said county, on the first 'l ues
day in Pebru *.ry next, between tho
legal I tours ot sale, the
wild Ends, belonging to the estate
of John R. Walker, late of said
deceased.
Lot No. 36”—8th of YVare. Lot
224—9th of Ware, Lot No 44 —
of Decatur,' Lot No. 217—27th
Deoatur, Lots No’s 172 and 173 —
oi Lee. I ots No’s 260 and 261—
12th of Wilcox, Lot No 39—13th o'
sham, Lot No 90—4th ot
Lot No 01—27th 2nd
Lot No 112—-iJtli 1st of
Kmui \„ Lot No 340—1st 4th
0 p {; j, 0 t No 148—3rd 2nd of
and half interest in Lot
28o—12th 1 tL of YVidker. Sold by
of the last will and testa
of the said John S. YValker,
for diviuons among tho heirs,
Cash. Jan. 3rd 1839.
F.J. WALKER ,
J.H. YVALKER .
Execu tors.
Ordinary’s Office, Jo nes Co ,Ga.
Nov. 17th 1888.
Whereas, Pleasant it. Bird,
cutor of Estate John YY. Bird de
ceased, applies to me for Dismis
sion. Those are to cite all persons
concerned to show cause if any
i hey have to .tho contrary at this
office on or by the first Monday
in March next.
Witness my hand officially.
It. T. ROSS, Ordinary
Money To Lend
on ;f a I! jis iN
Jones County
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MASONIC HALL, -MACON, GA
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NO, 9.
SELLING GUT
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Como and See and be
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CONVINCED.
From now until the 1st
A
of January.
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Clinton December 12th4888.
cat saes saof
Gray Georgia.
III HE mi m THE S. k i. B.R M
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j Having roCHltly frtrnishod my Shop Wlto ’ the . most‘Hill-_ aft
, )rovc „] t 0() ] g am now prepared to do carriage v.ork in
its brandies and will do bettor work for loss money than
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Otluff , shop . the , county. , ... Bring . old , , buggies .
any m in your
and wagons and for a little money I will make them look
like new ones. i\ r ew work built to order only.
Satisfaction guaranteed in all my work." (live mo a tria
and be convinced,
2 5—3m. IT. A. MORGAN.
W. T. WOMACK.
. BBAJjHH IN 8
Farmer’s Supplies and
General Merchandise,
Such as are kept in first-class houses. I am also prepared to pay the
highest market prices for cotton as I do the work my selt and save tho
usual warehouse expenses. Cotton shipped to me will receive my person
al attention.
All cottjon in store fallly protected by insurance.
iigeiii m ties
Constantly on hand at the lowest prices, and orders for same and also
shipments of cotton solicited, Very Respectfully,^
W. T. WOMACK,
9—8—3m—1888. EAST MACON, GA
w-T. VV.'BOND’S-o
111 m I %
Beds Free to Customers.
Tjifi PfiPT or WF? HWS
flQARp AND JOBACCOP
-AT THE BAR,
FILLING JUGS AND BOTTLES A SPECIALTY.
Como once and you’ll come again. • Jj k
Morgans Corner, Macon. Ga
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